If psychoanalysis emerged just before World War I to deal with the repressions of Puritanism, the hedonistic age has its counterpa...rt in sensitivity training, encounter groups, "joy therapy," and similar techniques that have two characteristics essentially derived from a hedonistic mood: they are conducted almost exclusively in groups; and they try to "unblock" the individual by physical contact, by groping, touching, fondling, manipulating. Where the earlier intention of psychoanalysis was to enable the patient to achieve self-insight and thereby redirect his life--an aim inseparable from a moral context--the newer therapies are entirely instrumental and psychologistic; their aim is to "free" the person from inhibitions and restraints so that he or she can more easily express his impulses and feelings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The cautious understatements of irony are often in marked contrast with the overstatements and sharp emotional intensity of satiri...cal comment. Indeed, the laughter of satire appears more spiteful, contemptuous, scoring the badness of actuality, as against that of irony, which appears more concerned with the ought to be, deploring the defects of what is in comparison with ideality. As against the ironist's use of inversion to encourage thinking for oneself, the satirist employs rhetoric, analogy, imagery, and invective. While irony persuades us through our own mental exertions, satire tries by tricks of literary suggestion to convince us that its opponents are wicked and depraved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... feminism is a political term and it must be recognized as such: it is political in women's terms. What are these terms? Essent...ially it means making connections: between personal power and economic power, between domestic oppression and labor exploitation, between plants and chemicals, feelings and theories; it means making connections between our inside worlds and the outside world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentiall...y the things I call the silent song of life--the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »